[Fedora-directory-users] Migrating Netscape DS to FDS

[Dave]

OK exporting/importing the LDIF worked, but I had to do some sleuth work 
to determine the custom objects and attributes in the slapd.user_oc.conf 
slapd.user_at.conf respectively, then manually create these in the new 
server using the same object and attribute types.    I suppose this is 
what the migration scripts would have done in version 6.0... not sure 
why they couldn't do the same work in version 8.0.    They build this 
software to last decades, but we're supposed to discard it after a few 
years when the support discontinues?   good grief.

Thanks again to all who chimed in.   cheers -Dave




Michael Ströder wrote:
> Dave wrote:
>   
>> With respect to exporting/import an LDIF file, yes there are about 20
>> custom fields in the schema for varying types of data such as user
>> preferences.    This is one reason I was trying to avoid an
>> import/export of LDIF as it would require some cleansing.   The
>> challenge of doing the step-upgrade now appears to be in finding version
>> 6 iPlanet Directory Server to download somewhere...   By the way, f
>> anyone is willing to take a crack at this I'd be more than happy to
>> compensate...  I have a Red Hat test server set up with fedora-ds
>> installed and an LDIF file containing a dump of the Netscape DS 4.1 server.
>>     
>
> Still I'd recommend to directly migrate to FDS by bulk-importing the
> LDIF. If that does not work you can come to the mailing list for asking
> why it fails.
>
> Ciao, Michael.
>
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